the official newsletter of the Major James Morgan Utz Camp #1815 Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Brigadier General Francis Marion Cockrell Chapter #84 of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars... ************************************************************************************************* Commander...Dave Roper; daveroper166@gmail.com 1st Lt. Commander...Duane Mayer; dmayer11@frontier.com 2nd Lt. Commander, Florida...Rojer Snyder 2nd Lt, Commander, Pilot Knob...Rob Graham; docgraham@gmail.com Adjutant...Brad Bludsworth; jobluds@aol.com Treasurer...Bill Bowden; confedman@gmail.com ******************************************************************* In this issue... Commander's Call...page2 Camp News...page2-3 Camp Committees...pages 4-5 Purging America's Heroes...pages 6-8 Secession Day Flyer...pages 9-10 John Stroud's Confederate Ancestor...page 11 1
Commanders Call. We had a great time at the Overpass Rally on August 29 at St. Peters MO. Those that participated where Gene Dressel, Mary Hause, Bill Bowden, Brad Bludsworth, Rick Morton, Doug Neff, Robert Adelson, Mike Mudra, Jim Plimly, Tim Tubbs, Steve Pfeil, Danny Payne and Dave Roper. Also had two members from the Price Camp Mike Harris and Mike Snyder. If I forgot someone I am really sorry. I would like to thank Lieutenant Commander Duane Mayer for filling in for me at the September Meeting. My wife and I had a great time at the Roper reunion in Georgia. Our next Camp Meeting will be October 10 at the Community Commons/Spencer Road Library Room 240, at 1 PM. The address is 427 Spencer Road, St. Peters, MO 63376. It is just off Mexico Road and South of the new Menards Home Improvement Center. You can access Mexico Road from Interstate 70 by exiting either at Mid-Rivers Mall Drive and go south to Mexico Road, then East to Spencer Road or exit at Cave Springs and go South to Mexico Road and then West to Spencer Roads When you get to Spencer go south a few blocks to Boone Hills Drive. The Community Commons Building (427 Spencer Road) is located at the South-East corner of that intersection. There will be no Camp Meeting in November just too much going on that weekend. We will have a Camp Meeting December 12 at 1:00 PM. Commander Roper was unable to attend the September 12th meeting, and Lieutenant Commander Duane Mayer officiated in his place. We had twenty-two people in attendance, got quite a lot of business done, and enjoyed an excellent guest speaker from the St. Louis Public Library. New Compatriots Tim Tubbs and Jim Hale were sworn in and welcomed to the Camp. We now have 83 members with several more in the system. The Camp purchased 48 Battle Flags and has them for sale to Camp members for $8 each. The price to non-camp members is $15 or two for $25. Gene Dressel reported on the flag rally at Jefferson City that took place August 16th. Several hundred protesters attended, including 26 from the Utz Camp. The media treated it as a "nonevent" as usual. As a result only the Columbia Tribune reported anything at all, claiming only a few dozen protesters showed up. Nothing new here...the media is part of the problem, not part of the solution. 2
Bill Bowden reported on the Spencer Road flagging that was held last month, and the parking problem that was initiated by a disgruntled COSCO employee. In spite of this the flagging was a huge success, and several Price Camp members joined in also. Photo on page 11. The Bridgeton Machinist Hall Gun Show (Sept. 19th) was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. September 26th we met at the Ft. Davidson Restaurant in Pilot Knob for our monthly satellite Camp gathering. Commander Roper will report on this at the October 10th meeting. Gene Dressel represented the Camp at the annual "Walk Back in Time" event in Mexico, Missouri that day. We have a gun show scheduled for October 2-4 at Farmington, Missouri, and the Camp Black Powder Shoot October 17th at Compatriot Jim Hale's place in Elsberry, Missouri. We also have a tentative date of October 24th for our annual Palmyra Pilgrimage this year. By-Laws Committee Chairman, Gene Dressel, reported that he has finished the final draft of the Camp By-Laws and will submit them for approval at the October 10th meeting. It was suggested that instead of printing and mailing copies of the by-laws to everyone, that they be placed on the Camp web site where they can be downloaded and printed. This would save the Camp an estimated $638. Due to many conflicting events the November 7th 2015 Camp meeting is cancelled. That same weekend we have the annual Secession Day Dinner at the Lake of the Ozarks, a possible gun show, and the Florissant Veterans Day Parade that Sunday (November 8th) if there are enough people interested in attending. The National SCV Reunion at Richmond, Virginia was discussed, and the 6 Resolutions reviewed. The Resolution condemning the NAACP for its assault on the Confederate flag,( and all things American) was the most favored. Our guest speaker, Tom Pearson, gave an excellent presentation on yankee POW camps in the St. Louis area. He also agreed to come back any time and give another talk from among his vast reservoir of presentations. 3
Camp Committees; The various activities of the Utz Camp are suppose to be run by committees which are outlined in our constitution and by-laws. The many activities of the camp are just too much for one or two persons to do, so the responsibilities are spread out among the entire membership at large. At each meeting the Commander will call on the committee chairmen for their reports on the progress they have made with their particular committee project the past month. Listed below are the camp committee chairmen and members: [1] Genealogy...Dave Roper, Chairman; Members...Bill Bowden, Gene Dressel, Rob Graham, Rick Morton, Doug Neff and Mike Roper [2] Recruiting...Dave Roper, Chairman; Members... Brad Bludsworth, Bill Bowden, Gene Dressel, Bob Fallert, Perry Jones, Roger Langendoerfer, Marty Martin, Duane Mayer, Mike Mosier, Doug Neff, Dan Payne, Rojer Snyder, Larry Strassenburger, John Strickland, Ben Williams [3] Fund Raising...Brad Bludsworth, Chairman; Members...Bill Bowden, Gene Dressel, Joshua Bludsworth, Steve Bludsworth, Gus Dordorico, Marvin Koechig, Doug Neff, Ted Watkins [4] Heritage Defense...Dave Roper, Chairman; Members...Bob Arnold, Howell Bishop, Olin Brown, Harry Cashatt, James Cullens, Ron Harvey, David Hazeltine, Chip Jolley, Ken Moorman, John Rosson, Joe Ryan, Randy Simmons, Jim Stroud, Ken White [5] Time & Place...Gene Dressel, Chairman; Members...Brad Bludsworth, Rob Graham, Wayne Moore, Greg Miller, Rojer Snyder [6] Programs...Dave Roper, Chairman; Members...Bill Bowden, Gene Dressel, Duane Mayer, Doug Neff [7] Web Site...Mark Palazzolo, Chairman; Members...Bill Bowden, Robert Graham, Ben Williams [8] Newsletter...Gene Dressel, Chairman; Members...Mike Bevill, Bob Fallert, Mike Driscoll, Carl Cullens, Roger Langendoerfer, Rick Morton, Mark Palazzolo, Al Williams [9] Graves Research...Bill Bowden, Chairman; Members...Gene Dressel, Marty Martin, Al Williams [10] Color Guard...Rob Adelson, Chairman; Members...Bob Arnold, Brad Bludsworth, Carl Cullens, Rob Graham, Charlie Heisinger, Duane Mayer [11] Historian...Gene Dressel, Chairman; Members...Bill Bowden, Jim Boulware, Greg Eberhardt, Ron Harvey, David King, John Lewis, Leroy Woods 4
[12] Quartermaster...Mike Bevill, Chairman; Members...Bill Bowden, Rob Adelson, Carl Cullens, Al Williams [13] Chaplain...Duane Mayer, Chairman; Members...Rob Graham, Monte Hopke, Drew Collom [14] Judge Advocate...Ted Watkins, Chairman; [15] Membership and Retention...Duane Mayer, Chairman; Members...Rojer Snyder, Steve Pfeil [16] Library...Duane Mayer, Chairman; Members...Rob Adelson, Bob Arnold, Mike Bevill, Todd Clark, Gus Dodorico, Charlie Heisinger, Rick Morton, John Worley [17] Camp Scrapbook...Bill Bowden, Chairman; Members...Carl Cullens, Gene Dressel, Ben Williams DUES TIME... Camp Treasurer, Billy Bowden reminds everyone that its time once again to pay your annual Camp dues. As an incentive to get folks to pay their dues early we will once again conduct the "Utz Camp Dues Lottery" this year. It's an opportunity to get one year's free membership. If you pay your dues in July-you get 4 chances to win; in August- 3 chances to win; in September- 2 chances to win and in October- 1 chance to win free membership for one year. If you wait til November your dues will be delinquent, and there will be an additional $5 charge to be reinstated. Annual SCV dues are $40. Of that, $30 goes to SCV National, $6 to the Utz Camp and $4 to the Missouri Division SCV. The SCV Fiscal Year runs from August 1 til July 31st of the following year. There is a period of grace from July 31st til November 1st. If your dues are not paid by November 1st your membership is dropped from National and there is an additional $5 reinstatement fee. "Friends of the camp" and "associate members" dues are $10. Life membership is available through SCV National at the following rates: ages 12-64= $750; Ages 65-79=$375; Age 80+= $187. A person with National SCV Life Membership will still owe the annual $6 camp fee plus the $4 annual Missouri Division fee. Please make your $40 check payable to "Camp #1815 SCV" and mail it to:treasurer: Billy Ed Bowden, 2182 Paige Marie Drive, Warrenton, Missouri, 63383-4490 If you have any questions about your dues you may contact: Treasurer Billy Ed Bowden at (636) 456-0009 5
Pat Buchanan...Purging America's Heroes With that "kumbayah" moment at the Capitol in South Carolina, when the Battle Flag of the Confederacy was lowered forever to the cheers and tears of all, a purgation of the detestable relics of evil that permeate American public life began. City leaders in Memphis plan to dig up the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who is buried in a city park that once bore his name. A statue of the great cavalrymen will be removed. Nathan Bedford Forrest is a symbol of bigotry and racism, and those symbols have no place on public property, said council chairman Myron Lowery, What we re doing here in Memphis is no different from what s happening across the country. Myron s got that right. Panicky Democrats are terminating their tradition of Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, as both presidents were slaveholders. Other slaveholders include Presidents George Washington, James Madison, who authored the Constitution that equated slaves with 3/5ths of a person, James Monroe, of Monroe Doctrine fame, John Tyler, who annexed Texas, and James K. Polk, who tore off half of Mexico. Jefferson, Jackson and Madison are also the names of the state capitals of Missouri, Mississippi and Wisconsin, and Washington is the capital of the United States. Is it not time to change the names of these cities to honor more women and minorities who better reflect our glorious new diversity? Washington, Jefferson and Jackson are on the $1, $2 and $20 bills. Ought they not all be replaced? In Baltimore and Annapolis, calls are heard for the removal of statues of Chief Justice Roger Taney of the Dred Scott decision. In Fairfax County, Virginia, J.E.B. Stuart High may be headed for a name change. Can George Washington and Washington-Lee, rivals of my old high school, be far behind? But it is Statuary Hall, beneath the cupola of the U.S. Capitol, where each state is represented by statues of two of its greatest, that really requires a Memphis-style moral cleansing. 6
Mississippi is represented by Jefferson Davis and Georgia by Alexander Stephens, the president and vice president of the Confederacy; South Carolina by John C. Calhoun, who called slavery a positive good, and Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton. Kentucky is represented by slave owner Henry Clay; Florida by Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith; North Carolina by Confederate colonel and Civil War governor Zebulon Vance; Texas by Stephen Austin and Sam Houston who seceded from Mexico to create a slave republic that joined the United States as a slave state in 1845. Utah is represented by Brigham Young, founder of a Mormon faith that declared black people unfit to belong; Virginia by Robert E. Lee and Washington. California is represented by a statue of Fr. Junipero Serra, who established the missions that became the cities of California and converted and disciplined pagan Indians to Christianity. Among the men revered by the generations that grew up in mid-20thcentury America, five categories seem destined for execration: Explorers like Columbus who conquered the indigenous peoples. Slave owners from 1619 to 1865. Statesmen, military leaders, and all associated with the Confederacy. All involved in the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Native-Americans, like Gens. William Sherman and Phil Sheridan who said, The only good Indian is a dead Indian, and acted on that maxim. Lastly, segregationists. There is a move afoot to take the name of Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, an opponent of civil rights laws, off the Senate Office Building to which it has been affixed for 40 years. As there are thousands of schools, streets, highways, buildings, towns and cities that bear the names of these old heroes and men like them, the purging is going to take decades. Yet, make no mistake, a Great Purge of American heroes of yesteryear is at hand. What did all those named above, who would be Class-A war criminals at the Southern Poverty Law Center, have in common? All were white males. All achieved greatly. All believed that the people whence they came were superior and possessed of a superior faith, Christianity, and hence fit to rule what Rudyard Kipling called the lesser breeds without the Law. 7
Acting on a belief in their racial, religious and cultural superiority, they created the greatest nation on earth. And people who got in their way were shoved aside, subjugated, repressed and ruled. As for the Confederates of the Lost Cause, they yielded to superior force only after four years of fighting, but their battle flag has ever after been seen as a banner of rebellion, bravery and defiance. And those tearing down the battle flags, and dumping over the monuments and statues, and sandblasting the names off buildings and schools, what have they ever accomplished? They inherited the America these men built, but are ashamed at how it was built. And now they watch paralyzed as the peoples of the Third World, whom their grandfathers ruled, come to dispossess them of the patrimony for which they feel so guilty. The new barbarians will make short work of them. 8
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My Confederate Ancestor Compatriot John Stroud Private Robert T. Martin was born in 1829 in New Kent Co. VA. He was 33 years old, and was never married. He Enlisted in the Confederate Army on June 3 1861 at West Point, King William Co. VA. Private Martin was assigned to Captain A. J. Ellett s Company, Pamunkey Artillery VA. Which later became Captain A. J. Jones Company VA. Artillery. Pamunkey Heavy Artillery was organized in May 1861, with men from New Kent Co. VA. This Company was attached to the Department of Richmond and first served at West Point, King William Co. VA. Later it was on duty at Chaffin s Bluff VA. Early in 1864 it was converted to Infantry and only 5 men were present at Appomattox. Robert passed away at Chaffin s Bluff on December 28 1863 of a disease. Chaffin s Bluff is located in Henrico Co. VA., along the James River. Chaffin s Bluff on the north side of the river opposite Drewry s Bluff, long considered a major defense point of the river below Richmond. Located at a major bend in the river about 8 miles south of Richmond, both bluffs were fortified by Confederates early in the War Between the States. Robert also had 4 Brothers that served in the same Unit. William B. Martin Enlisted Dec. 25 1861 at the age of 29 years old. He survived the War. Thomas B. Martin Enlisted Jan. 11 1864 he was admitted Aug. 14 1864 in Wayside Hospital or General Hospital No. 9 Richmond VA. Thomas passed away Aug 15 1864 cause of death Typhoid fever.. James J. Martin Enlisted at the age of 22 on June 30 1861 he also survived the War. James twin brother, Littleberry Martin, enlisted at the same time June 30 1861, and he also survived the War. There were 10 Martin s in Captain A.J. Ellett s Company all from New Kent VA. There a good chance they were all related. 11
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